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For my reward I have received what has since proved uncalled for blame and that no stinted allowance of my services. Otherwise, I have received no recognition.
That I have stated nothing but bare facts in this letter to Your Lordship, the Colonial Secretary, the Honourable W. I. Deane, C.M.G., will, I think, vouch for.
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your most obedient Servant,
Colomat ting.
Turgeon
Copy of a Minute by the Act. Col. Secretary.
His Excellency,
Submitted. I observe that the Colonial Surgeon appeals to my knowledge of his work in this letter. I remember perfectly well the dreadful attack of typhoid fever that seized him, owing to his researches in the Auric alleys.
Three times a grave was prepared for him, and for at least two years I could trace in his features the result of this illness.
I do not shrink from saying it can be doubted but that it is owing to the persistent work of the Colonial Surgeon that the sanitation of the Colony has been forced into prominence, and